Breast Cancer

A major new study has found that even birth control pills and other contraceptives that release low doses of hormones increase the risk of breast cancer in women. While the link between hormonal birth control and breast cancer has been known for years, many doctors and women had hoped that newer...

Amy McCoy of Arbutus describes the last two years as a roller coaster ride. A year and a half ago, she lost her father to cancer. Four months later, her mother was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. Because her mother's cancer was caught early, the treatment plan was short and to the point,...

Scientists with the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have created a free, web-based app that will help better detect a woman's risk of getting breast cancer more than once using analysis of a patient's tumor biopsy. The app using the analysis could help doctors better decide if women with early-stage...

After two decades in which breast-conserving surgery was the preferred option for women with early breast cancer, mastectomy rates are on the rise. This trend, fueled both by fear of a relapse and by advances in surgical reconstruction, has some experts concerned that women aren't paying enough...

Sarah Mital, a 35-year-old resident of New York was trying to get pregnant when she discovered a lump in her right breast. The next month, at her annual OB-GYN visit, Mital was referred to Dr. Sharon Rosenbaum Smith, a breast surgeon at Mount Sinai West in New York to assess the lump. Rosenbaum...

Can massaging key points on the body reduce the burdensome fatigue so often experienced by breast cancer survivors after treatment is completed? The first large study of its kind, published in JAMA Oncology in July, found that the answer is yes. Fatigued survivors who self-administered acupressure...

One thing became apparent to Giuliana Rancic as she worked to stress the importance of early detection in breast cancer: Women dealing with it wanted nothing more than to treat their friends to dinner. Or to treat their family to a much-needed vacation. Or to stop thinking about chemotherapy and...

For nearly 30 years, Laurel resident Nancy Becraft has been fighting to help fund research on a cure for cancer, not as a survivor but as a caregiver. Alongside her husband, Wayne Becraft, she says the family was a strong support system for a few cousins who were battling cancer, scheduling doctors'...

More than half of breast cancers newly diagnosed in the United States are likely cases of mistaken identity that subject women to needless anxiety, treatment and expense, researchers reported Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study also found that the value of mammograms as...

David Allen rests his forearm on the bare back of his client, a record producer, and applies the needle of a nearly silent tattoo machine to the stencil of a cicada on the man's skin. He works methodically around one outstretched wing, intensely focused, until the client is ready for a break, fresh...